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Anna Karenina

him to herself as talking calmly to his mother and Princess
Sorokina and rejoicing at her sufferings. ‘Yes, I must go
quickly,’ she said, not knowing yet where she was going.
She longed to get away as quickly as possible from the

feelings she had gone through in that awful house. The
servants, the walls, the things in that house—all aroused
repulsion and hatred in her and lay like a weight upon her.
‘Yes, I must go to the railway station, and if he’s not
there, then go there and catch him.’ Anna looked at the
railway timetable in the newspapers. An evening train
went at two minutes past eight. ‘Yes, I shall be in time.’
She gave orders for the other horses to be put in the
carriage, and packed in a traveling-bag the things needed
for a few days. She knew she would never come back here
again.
Among the plans that came into her head she vaguely
determined that after what would happen at the station or
at the countess’s house, she would go as far as the first
town on the Nizhni road and stop there.
Dinner was on the table; she went up, but the smell of
the bread and cheese was enough to make her feel that all
food was disgusting. She ordered the carriage and went
out. The house threw a shadow now right across the
street, but it was a bright evening and still warm in the

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